The Season's Vagrant Light

The Season's Vagrant Light is Sheri Benning's first collection of poetry to be published outside her native Canada. It includes the best poems from both of her two previous publications, together with a generous selection of new work. Benning's early poems are infused with the light and hue of her homeland, 'its cities sewn by rivers, its horizons spilling snow, spilling stars'. The newer work travels farther afield, to Russia, New Mexico, Scotland. Throughout, Benning's poetry is alive to the quiet intimacies between father and daughter, mother and child, between siblings and between lovers.

Sheri Benning grew up on a small farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. She has since travelled widely while attaining several academic degrees. Benning is the author of two collections of poetry, Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books) and Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press), but this is her first collection to be published in the UK. Her poetry, essays and fiction have also appeared in numerous Canadian and British literary journals and anthologies, including New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011). Benning divides her time between Glasgow, where she completed her PhD, and her family's farm near Manitou Lake, Saskatchewan.